[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:

>> Unicode users have no use for an char type, instead they have to use
>> substrings for every logical character.  A Unicode BMP user could be happy
>> with a 2-byte char, of course, at his own (low) risk.
> 
> Probably. But while a good point for a application builder based in the
> West, it is IMHO not acceptable to cut corners in the unicode implementation
> in system and development tools.

FPC also allows to use Complex values - but nobody is forced to use such 
numbers without any good reason and technical (mathematical) background. 
The same for the use of astral Unicode characters, IMO.

DoDi